New Media Journalism Summary

New media journalism is all about getting there, gathering and reporting as much information to the public as fast as possible. Integration of different forms of media, sound clips, video clips, etc. makes this form of journalism the most robust form of news reporting in modern times. The prevalence of cameraphones has made it so that regular citizens are putting their perspectives out there for everyone to see.  The biggest news outlets might not have the most relevant news to you,  and so they are turning to their audience to help them scoop the other stations. They ask for you to call in with your stories, or comment on their blogs or submit your own videos.

Each site that I compared over the course of the term has a different demographic of viewers. The Huffington Post crowd is internet and world news savvy. Each post is accompanied by a photo, and usually a video, and beyond the content followed by hundreds of opinionated comments, and viewers are interacting with the authors and other readers.  NCPR.org is regional/local + national. Each story is accompanied by a sound clip from the radio broadcast and possibly a small image. While there is a place for a comment for each news story there isn't much action in these sections. North Country Now is similar to NCPR in that it is local/regional. The stories seem to be even more focused on the Canton and Potsdam area, most stories are just text, few have accompanying photos. For large events there might be extra content such as a slide show or video. The New York Times is a national news site, the writing and photography is the most professional of all of the compared sites.  The stories are more indepth, there are more photos, usually a slide show or video and a place for comments. NYTimes gets many comments per story, but the comments sections aren't a main focus as they are at the Huffington Post site. 

Objectivity Report

I had a very short and easy survey. You can lead horses to water, but can't make them drink. I only received 2 responses, eep! Really is this enough for analysis?

The 2 respondents, one male and one female, reported that they read news online at least 3 or more times daily. One even has a news site as their homepage. Their favorite news sites were New York Times and Yahoo News. When asked to categorize news sites as being biased or objective, both respondents said that FoxNews was biased, both reported CNN and their favorite news source as unbiased. The respondents had split views regarding objectivity in reporting for msnbc, NPR and ESPN.

I was not surprised at the results of the poll. I think it's generally accepted that FoxNews has an agenda :) the only ones who don't see it are the ones that have succumbed to the not so subtle brainwashing. I'm glad that the respondents believe that their own favorite news sites are not biased! That means that there is hope, that journalism and the search for true information is not quite dead.

Exhaustion, in more ways than 1

Busy week. No time for digital photos, no time for analog. No time or cash for processing. Blech.

What, still no photos?

Overwhelmed with work. No time to take photos, everything looks the same. meh.

Overwhelmed

Too much work lately to play with cameras... hopefully tomorrow will be less busy. I'll have to run to the construction site early :)

New Dorms Taking Shape on Campus

Complications with video equip and rain. Hopefully Monday will be sunnier, or I'll bring my umbrella.

Robot Action Cameras! w00t!

Robot cameras arrived from Korea today! Yay!  I got 3. 1 with 2 lenses, 3 lenses, and 4 lenses. One press of the shutter and  many clicks in succession, which means action shots :) I can't wait to take these out tomorrow! I might even get them 1 hour processed. I wanna seeeeeeee their action awesomeness :)

It rained heavily this morning, took out my waterproof camera and got a little wet. Didn't get to go puddle jumping... maybe it'll rain more this weekend.

Photos tomorrow, I hope. At least of the cameras... :)